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With 10 minutes setup, you will get a monitoring solution, that includes log aggregation, performance and system metrics, metrics from the control plane and application metrics, a dashboard for reviewing network activity, and alerts to notify you about cluster or application performance issues.

An application requires Collectord built by Outcold Solutions, see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/

Overview

Outcold Solutions provide solutions for monitoring Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker clusters in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. We offer Splunk applications, which give you insights across all containers environments. We are helping businesses to reduce complexity related to logging and monitoring by providing easy-to-use and deploy solutions for Linux and Windows containers. We deliver applications to help developers monitor their applications and operators to keep their clusters healthy. With the power of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud, we offer a unique solution to help you keep all the metrics and logs in one place, allowing you to quickly address complex questions on container performance and cluster health.

Description

We provide solutions for monitoring Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker clusters in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. With 10 minutes setup, you will get a monitoring solution, that includes log aggregation, performance and system metrics, metrics from the control plane and application metrics, a dashboard for reviewing network activity, and alerts to notify you about cluster or application performance issues.
All our solutions are powered by the Collectord, a container-native software built by Outcold Solutions that provides capabilities for discovering, transforming and forwarding logs, collecting system metrics, collecting metrics from the control plane of the orchestration frameworks and forwarding network activity. Collectord provides flexible and powerful tools for transforming logs. With our software you can hide sensitive information from the loglines before forwarding them. With Collectord you can reduce the licensing costs associated with logging aggregation by choosing which data you want to forward from the log streams. Collectord forwards container logs, host logs and can discover logs written by the containerized applications.

Use cases

Application Monitoring

See detailed metrics from containers and processes, including performance metrics, utilization metrics and security insights. Forward application-specific metrics, exported in Prometheus format. Use prebuilt Splunk dashboards for a comprehensive overview.

Log Aggregation

Aggregate logs from containers, applications, and servers. Use flexible mappings to filter logs enriched with container metadata, correlate logs with metrics, and leverage Splunk capabilities for analyzing logs. Use Collectord to transform logs before they reach Splunk, remove sensitive information, remove PII data to help keep your logs GDPR compliant. With Collectord you can reduce licensing and storage costs by choosing which loglines you want to forward.

Cluster Health Monitoring

Diagnose cluster issues by looking at historical events, monitoring allocations, and regulating cluster capacity. Leverage pre-built alerts for monitoring the health of the clusters out of the box.

Reduce complexity and improve productivity

Use one tool to collect and forward logs and metrics required by developers for reviewing performance and health of their applications. With the annotations developers can define how they want to see the data in log aggregation tool, specify multiline log patterns, removing terminal escape codes, override types, sources and indexes.

- New: Dashboard Review -> namespaces. Review allocations and requests for namespaces and pods.- Fixed: kubernetes_stats_cpu_request_percent - is divided by the number of CPU.

Collectord updates:- Fixed: Interval 0 in prometheus input can crash the collectord.- Fixed: When both glob and match are set for the application logs, the glob pattern can block the match pattern fromfinding the files in the volume.

- Fixed: Improved Workload dashboard. Allows to filter by namespace, see all Pods in a specific namespace, filter by workload label.- New: Alert for showing when Collectord reports errors in Processing pipelines (as an example if it failed to extract fields).- New: Alert for showing when Collectord reports warnings.- Fixed: Add node labels filter to Storage Dashboard and Control Plane Dashboards.- New: Alert if lag in the indexing of the data.- New: Splunk Usage (License usage, number of events) report under Setup.- Fixed: adjusted high amount of errors to Kubernetes API dashboard to make it less verbose.

- New: Review/Storage dashboard based on storage metrics and PVC metrics.- New: predefined alerts to help you monitor the health of the clusters and performance of the applications.- Fixed: Performance improvements...

For details https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/release-history/

- New: Review/Storage dashboard based on storage metrics and PVC metrics.- New: predefined alerts to help you monitor the health of the clusters and performance of the applications.- Fixed: Performance improvements...

For details https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/release-history/

Version 5.2.179

Oct. 17, 2018

5.2.179 - 2018-10-17- Fixed: changed search time for few alerts that cause false positives with indexing lag on large installations

- New: Review/Storage dashboard based on storage metrics and PVC metrics.- New: predefined alerts to help you monitor the health of the clusters and performance of the applications.- Fixed: Performance improvements...

For details https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/release-history/

- New: Review/Storage dashboard based on storage metrics and PVC metrics.- New: predefined alerts to help you monitor the health of the clusters and performance of the applications.- Fixed: Performance improvements...

For details https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/release-history/

Version 5.1.175

Sept. 17, 2018

- New: Network metrics (MB, Packets, Drops, ​and Errors) for host and containers.- New: Network socket tables (list of the port that containers and hosts are listening on, connections to external resources).- New: Network review dashboard to see the list of connection to public services and in private network.- Improvement: Replace python-based lookup with a macro written with eval.- Improvement: Visual improvement for showing when the object was Last Seen (highlighting and showing minutes ago).... and more

Version 2.0.17

- Better labels support in Dashboards. Collector has a breaking feature, replacing format for labels from `kubernetes_node_labels_LABEL1=VALUE1` to `kubernetes_node_labels=[LABEL1=VALUE1,LABEL2=VALUE2]`.- Process level metrics.- Uptime for hosts and processes.- Fields extraction for kubernetes controller manager and scheduler.- Fields extraction and support in dashboards for main kubernetes components (setup host logs collection with collector).- New top-like dashboards allow to monitor Hosts/Pods/Containers/Processes in realtime.- Rewritten Kubernetes Objects Dashboards with support of Events and Labels.- Improved dashboards navigation.- Support for host logs.- Other bugs and improvements based on user feedback.

Version 1.0.3

Oct. 13, 2017

Updated links to official documentation for installation instructions.

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